The European Commission is to impose duties on Russian birch plywood products entering the EU through Kazakhstan and Turkey, following a months long investigation. The Commission launched the investigation in 2023 into the suspected circumvention because of concerns that had arisen about some Russian birch plywood exporters using third countries as transit to avoid the anti-dumping measures and sanctions on the import of wood products from Russia and Belarus. A request for an investigation was lodged in July 2023 by the Woodstock Consortium, which is comprised of Paged-Pisz from Poland’s Paged Group and Latvian group ...